Higher-than-expected prevalence of silent cerebral infarcts in children with hemoglobin SC disease

Blood

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 416-417

  Guilliams, Kristin P ^a,b   Fields, Melanie E ^b   Hulbert, Monica L ^b  

^a Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SCREENING; SILENT CEREBRAL INFARCTION; WHITE MATTER LESION; ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921047835     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-10-605964     Document Type: Article

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